The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-04-27
Censured by His lndorsers.

Tine report of q comlnitte Of the Nation
/ al Civil Lervice Reform League. appoint
. ed a wear ago to consider the conduct of
the Admins ration, needs 10 be read
with recollection Of "a personal history Of
the signer,. Messrs Curtis and >chuTz
and other members of the committee
made themselves conspicuous in iudor~-
ing Mr. Cleveland as pure refomer
They thought that they, a. professional
rcformers themselves, ought % know "a
refarmer when they saw him. Now these
indor-er, are called upon to state whcth-
er the President proves TO be the man
they said he WIS. 20 IS hardly expected
that report under such peculiar cir
cumstanccs would De at an unfair or un-
friendly
The report states that in the Po-toilice
Department. within one year and four
months the new appointments were
more than 80 per cent. many OF the
change, having merely substituted oilrn-
sive pariisan- Of one party for offensive
PARTISAN, Of another Regarding the
conduct of the service in Indiana il says:
Dfuinctv-two Presidential offices i'm In
diana. the former iucImbent- af eighty
three were removed. and the employees
have been almost entirely changed. OF
500 fourih-cla~- offices ]. .20l have been
changed. and of the remaining 500 rhe
euolument- are 50 small that the office,
ar. not desirable
such facts. the committee thinks. seem
to show clear violation ofthe moral ca-
aaeement made with the country by the
Postmaster General. But has the Pro-i-
dent himself no responsibility What
propriety is there in reporting that his
skirts are clean. while he per-i-tently re-
iaius in office a Postmaster General who
has for two years openly disregarded the
principles of reform Ia this H3grut man
n.r
Regarding the Interior department the
report atiinms that in nineteen months
III per cent. of the offices bad been
changed, in many instances forthe worse
and the conclusion Is irresistible that the
Indian Bureau has been managed la the
interests of party. and not primarily in
. the interest of the public service But
hoy dor- the commi tee excuse the Pres
idcnt who persistently retains in office
+ the Secretary Of the Interior who author
. Ives and the Indian Commissioner who
commits. these fragrant violations of his
rules
The conoealment~ Of this report are AZ
least as important rs its admissions. The
committee is careful not TO give theprom-
inence. which unbiased critics would
surely give 10 the cases IN which the
President personally decided against the
interest. of reform. .afterinvcStigltiona and
delihrrItiou. KNOWN. the serious charg-
c> against the men appointed, and per-
f.ctlv aware that their selection could Doe
urged only for reasons hostile to reform.
ln spite of all this, IN many ra~e~ hc has
. appointed the known tool. of unworthy
political managers Again. the commit
. tee .lrefuly ignores the Presidents nb-ti-
nate retention in office of persons like
Sparks, Atkins Lamar, NiIa-. Garland.
and even Higgins and others Who's. per-
sl-tout violation of rules and tae entire
disregard of the principle by which be-
praie->r- tn be guided, must Pee known io
hlm The omission Of these ,i'a points
rnierS the report gfthe committee open
tocrn~urc boy men who are sincere friends
Of reform. and VINO are not under bonds
go regard with favor the conduct Of rhr
Pre-iuent-N. T. Tltb,Ys